Empty and vain are the words of that philosopher
which offer no relief for human suffering.

—Porphyry, Letter to Marcella

• Plato’s dialogues, particularly Gorgias, Republic, Symposium, Phaedrus, Charmides, Protagoras, and Alcibiades I.

• Jonathan Lear, Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Yale University Press, 1999.

• Alasdair MacIntyre, The Unconscious: A Conceptual Analysis. Routledge, 2004.

• Donna Orange, Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies. Routledge, 2010.

If you find yourself interested in further resources about the relationship between depth therapy and philosophy, you can find a more developed reading list here.